Why did God choose the way of love? Because it’s a powerful force in the universe because it’s who He is! It’s His nature.

Why Love?
Series: Why?
Opening Video: Real Love from sermonspice.
Thesis: Why did God choose the way of love? Because it’s a powerful force in the universe because it’s who He is! It’s His nature.
ST. VALENTINE'S STORY TOLD IN HIS WORDS:
Let me introduce myself.
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Why “Love”…
Ouch! My Dad developed a frozen shoulder condition and boy we took him from one hospital to another with no avail, till the “Magnet therapy” did the trick. In this sermon, I intend to touch upon a particular type of “shoulder
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As we grow in love for each other in a Church, we learn more and more about each other, discovering more reasons to not like each other. This passage teaches the importance to choose love, unconditionally and depend upon Christ for His righteousness and l

Why Love?
1 John 3”10-18
Ill. What is love?
It is silence--when your words would hurt.
It is patience--when your neighbor's curt.
It is deafness--when a scandal flows.
It is thoughtfulness--for other's woes.
It is promptness--when stern duty calls.
It is courage--when misfortune
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Why should Christians love their enemies? What does love for an enemy mean? Do we have to like them too? Let’s examine what Jesus says in Luke 6:27-38.

Why should Christians love their enemies? What does love for an enemy mean? Do we have to like them too? Let’s examine what Jesus says in Luke 6:27-38.
How Love Enemies
Luke 6:27-28 “But I say to you who hear, love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for
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WHY PEOPLE FAIL TO DEVELOP AS CHRISTIANS
Jeremiah 7: 25 Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt unto this day I have even sent unto you all my servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them:
26 Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor
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Things aren’t always what they first appear to be. During my first few years as the pastor of teaching here at LBF Church I got a phone call from a guy identifying himself as a Navy Chaplain. He told me that a guy recent discharge from the Navy’s child had died under tragic circumstances while he
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Why love is so crucial in our Christian walk and use reflections of Memorial Day to describe that.

The Beatles song, Love, love, love is all you need was a popular song. Young people of that time echoed that sentiment in their actions and in how they lived their lives. They thought this was a new concept that their parents just wouldn’t or couldn’t get. But the concept was far older than the
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The objective of this sermon is to provide reasons why we should love one another from 1 John 4. The sermon is introduced with a short note on the Biblical meaning of love.

LOVE ONE ANOTHER
1 John 4:7-21
What is love?
• Centered in the will.
• Biblical meaning of love = Not based on emotions, feelings.
• A decision or choice that one makes.
• Selfless, sacrificial, giving.
• For the benefit of the object being loved.
Why Love One Another?
1. We Love
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A sermon about why love’s got to do with everything, and why it should be the most precious, and old-fashion notion of all.

INTRO
Tina Turner once asked a powerful question, one that became a hit song of the early- eighties. She asked, “What does love have to do with it?” Her song is replete with two, rhetorical questions: “What's love but a second hand emotion” and “Who needs a heart,
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On Quinquagesima, 1 Corinthians 13:1-13 teaches us about FAITH, HOPE, and LOVE, and why LOVE is the greatest of these. Luke 18:31-43 teaches us about SALVATION and RESTORATION of SIGHT. How are these truths connected? How do we apply them in our lives?

In the Epistle (1 Corinthians 13:1-13) selected for Quinquagesima Sunday, or as I call it, Sight Sunday, S. Paul gives us a teaching on FAITH, HOPE, and CHARITY (or, as some translate it, LOVE, meaning Christ-like love) – not only on what they mean, but also on how they relate to each other.
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A Series on the Family of Faith inspired by the "Purpose Driven Life" by Rick Warren.

2, May 2004
Dakota Community Church
Love in the Family of God
Part Two: Loving the Brethren – A.
Opening Illustration:
What is the church?
Russ Blowers is a minister who is active in his local Indianapolis Rotary club. At club meetings each week a member gives a brief statement about
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This sermon ties Old Testament prophecy with New Testament fulfillment on the First Advent and the forerunner, John the Baptist.

PREPARING THE WAY OF THE LORD
Text: Malachi 3:1-7
There is the story about a man who visited the Fiji islands. This visitor was skeptical of missionaries. He even spoke with the chief and told him that the missionaries only wanted to get rich of them. The
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This is the fifth in a series on love from I Corinthians 13; it deals with the fact that love does not boast and is not arrogant.

“The Utmost Evil”
I Corinthians 13:4
December 15, 2002
Love of Another Kind – I Corinthians 13
Don’t look in your Bibles yet; let’s play a little “word association” first: when I say the term “the utmost evil”, what comes first to your mind? C.S. Lewis called bragging “the utmost evil.”
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Forget gifts for a moment. Let me show you the best way to demonstrate your Christian maturity. If you want to show just how mature you are as a Christian, then show it not by the way you exercise the gifts God gives you, but by the way you bear the fruit

Today we return to 1 Corinthians, but it’s been over a month, so I thought I should bring us all up to speed again. Let me remind you of where we got to last time. Paul has been addressing the question of the nature and function of spiritual gifts in the congregation. Corinth is a place where
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